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The first time Martin Mlecko was invited to exhibit his work in Berlin, a few years before the fall of the Wall, he created a piece that made some insinuations about a future reunification of the country. Upon which he was told that he “can stay at home with your jokes”. Since then, a lot…

An Argentinian Armenian who found herself in West Berlin just a year before the fall of the Wall, Silvina Der Meguerditchian, has again and again, through her artworks, confronted the traumatic history of the Armenian Genocide and her family’s displacement. Art has provided her the means and the power to preserve the memory of her…

A visual artist who takes down notes instead of doing sketches, Jenny Michel sees herself as someone who writes. There is good reason for that. “My art is text based”, she says. Having started with a pseudo-scientific approach to her art only to move on to more of a philosophical one, here is a person…

It’s been many years since Claudia de Serpa Soares left her hometown of Lisbon for Angers, then Ljubljiana, then for Berlin, where she finally settled. For now, that is. One of the performers in the Sasha Waltz & Guests dance ensemble, she joins the company when touring repertory pieces as well as for short term…

He is convinced that some things that happened to him while he was still a child, happened for a reason: so that he devotes himself to art. That was a decision Via Lewandowsky took earlier than most people and which he has never doubted. For one thing, he didn’t feel anything else was interesting.…